Sections 61 and 68 of the Constitution provide that the Governor-General exercises certain powers as the Queen's representative.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

At the start of Chapter 2 on executive government, the Constitution says " The executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Queen and is exercisable by the Governor-General as the Queen's representative ".

Section 68, says " command-in-chief of naval and military forces ... is vested in the Governor-General as the Queen's representative ".

::: The executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Queen and is exercisable by the Governor-General as the Queen's representative, and extends to the execution and maintenance of this Constitution, and of the laws of the Commonwealth.

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

The Queen's representative and adviser in the island is the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Notably, as First Speaker of the House, Jaja Wachuku received Nigeria's Instrument of Independence-also known as Freedom Charter-on October 1, 1960, from Princess Alexandra of Kent, The Queen's representative at the Nigerian independence ceremonies.

Though the federal viceroy is considered primus inter pares amongst his or her provincial counterparts, the governor general also outranks the lieutenant governors in the federal sphere ; at provincial functions, however, the relevant lieutenant governor, as the Queen's representative in the province, precedes the governor general.

According to Whitlam speechwriter Graham Freudenberg, " the residual rage over the conduct of the Queen's representative found a constructive outlet in the movement for the Australian Republic ".

While several powers are the sovereign's alone, because she lives predominantly in the United Kingdom, most of the royal governmental and ceremonial duties in Canada are carried out by the Queen's representative, the governor general.

The Whitlam Government ended in 1975 with a dramatic constitutional crisis in which the Queen's representative, the Governor-General ( then John Kerr ), dismissed Whitlam and his entire ministry, appointing Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser in his place.

On 3 March 2012, HRH Prince Harry visited Belize on a tour of Commonwealth countries in the region as the Queen's representative in her Diamond Jubilee, making this his first solo royal tour.

She was the first woman to serve as Canada's governor general and, while her appointment as the Queen's representative was initially and generally welcomed, Sauvé caused some controversy during her time as vicereine, mostly due to increased security around the office, as well as an anti-monarchist attitude towards the position.

It was in December 1983 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Trudeau had put forward Sauvé's name to Buckingham Palace as his recommendation on who should succeed Edward Schreyer as the Queen's representative.

She was said to have enjoyed both entertaining and ceremony, two necessary parts of the role of the Queen's representative.

Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada are appointed by the Governor General-in-Council, a process whereby the governor general, the viceregal representative of the Queen of Canada, makes appointments based on the advice and consent of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

In 2005, Canada changed its Letter of Credence and Letter of Recall by removing all references to Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada, Canada's head of state, instead having them run in the name of the Governor General, who is the Queen's representative.

It was on December 14, 1989 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's choice of Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as the Queen's representative.

While Clarkson's appointment as the Canadian vicereine was generally welcomed at first, she caused some controversy during her time serving as the Queen's representative, mostly due to costs incurred in the operation of her office, as well as a somewhat anti-monarchist attitude toward the position.

Casley reasoned that as the Governor acts as the Queen's representative, this made Her Majesty liable, in tort, for applying an unlawful imposition as the quota had not yet been passed into law.

In correspondence with the governor-general's office, Casley was inadvertently addressed as the " Administrator of the Hutt River Province " which was claimed ( via Royal Prerogative as the Queen's representative ) to be a legally binding recognition.

On June 4, 1979, Hnatyshyn was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, giving him the accordant style of The Honourable ; however, as a former governor general of Canada, Hnatyshyn was entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable.

It was announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on November 22, 1994 that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's choice of LeBlanc to succeed Ray Hnatyshyn as the Queen's representative.

He was proved right, but because the shafts are not connected to the outer faces of the pyramid or the Queen's Chamber, their purpose is unknown.

By 2002, the royal tour and associated fêtes for the Queen's Golden Jubilee proved popular with Canadians across the country, though Canada's first republican organization since the 1830s was also founded that year.

Ernest learned cavalry drill and tactics under Captain von Linsingen of the Queen's Light Dragoons, and proved to be an excellent horseman as well as a good shot.

Against the advice of the Queen's Irish Counsellors, Desmond was allowed to return to Ireland in 1573, the Earl promising not to exercise palatinate jurisdiction in Kerry until his rights to it were proved.

To preserve British authority and retain control over the traffic of gold out of the region, the Governor commissioned the building of the Cariboo Road, a. k. a. the Queen's Highway, and an route from Lillooet and also established the Gold Escort, although that government agency never proved viable and private expressmen dominated the shipment of goods and mail into the gold fields, and gold out of it ( see Francis Jones Barnard and B. X.

The song was a live favourite on Magic Tour of the same year, which proved to be Queen's last with the original foursome.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

It differs from other dialects in vocabulary and pronunciation: it appears to be spoken slightly nasally, and could be compared to the Queen's English.

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".

The arrangement was stated to be for the benefit of Francis ' sister, Elizabeth Trentham, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, whom Oxford married later that year.

Lincoln reported that after dinner Oxford spoke of the Queen's impending death, claiming that the peers of England should decide the succession, and suggested that since Lincoln had ' a nephew of the blood royal ... Lord Hastings ', he should be sent to France to find allies to support this aim.

The Governor acts " at the Queen's pleasure ", meaning that the term of the Governor can be terminated at any time by the Queen acting upon the advice of the Premier.

For example, in the United States the Vice-President acts when the President is incapacitated, and in the United Kingdom the Queen's powers may be delegated to Counselors of State when she is abroad or unavailable.

After following a route where various judging points are located, the mas bands eventually converge on the Queen's Park Savannah to pass on " The Stage " to be judged once and for all – this is usually the climax for revelers because the stage is literally their own to portray their costumes to the onlooking audience in the North and Grand Stands and also the video-photographers and other camera persons.

Many in the government felt that Townsend would be an unsuitable husband for the Queen's 22-year-old sister, and the Church of England refused to countenance the marriage to a divorced man.

The Queen also is plotting to murder both Imogen and Cymbeline to secure Cloten's kingship, and to that end has procured what she believes to be deadly poison from the court doctor Cornelius ; Cornelius, however, suspects the Queen's malice and switches the " poison " with a drug that will cause the imbiber's body to mimic death for a while before reviving.

Since 1993, HM The Queen's personal estate ( e. g. shareholdings, personal jewellery, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle ) will be subject to Inheritance Tax, though bequests from Sovereign to Sovereign are exempt.

Under these conventions, HM The Queen's children, the children of HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH The Duke of York and HRH The Earl of Wessex would all be titled Princes or Princesses and styled Royal Highness, as would be the eldest son of HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

However, under HM The Queen's 21 August 1996 letters patent, divorced wives and widows who subsequently remarry of a Prince of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland " shall not be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness.

Statues of Edward can be found throughout the former empire, such as those in Waterloo Place, London ; Centenary Square, Birmingham ; Union Street, Aberdeen ; Queen's Park, Toronto ; North Terrace, Adelaide ; Franklin Square, Hobart ; Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne ; Phillips Square, Montreal and outside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid ( Bugle of Freedom ) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case ; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

James Legge continued to be Principal until he was appointed by the Government in 1864 to help prepare for the opening of Queen's College.

He recounts how he rose from humble beginnings to be " ruler of the Queen's Navee " through persistence, although he has no naval qualifications.

He departed London to the cheers of the Queen's subjects, and it was expected that the rebellion would be crushed instantly.

He explained to her that he could not marry, not even in order to beget a Dudley heir, without his " utter overthrow ": You must think it is some marvellous cause ... that forceth me thus to be cause almost of the ruin of mine own house ... my brother you see long married and not like to have children, it resteth so now in myself ; and yet such occasions is there ... as if I should marry I am sure never to have Queen's favour ".

The Queen's Commissioner can be dismissed only by the Crown.

Whitlam, now Leader of the Opposition, refused all invitations to events at Yarralumla, which the Kerrs continued to extend until his refusal of an invitation during the Queen's 1977 visit caused them to feel that no further efforts need be made.